Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.